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SPRINGFIELD, MA (WGGB/WHSM) -- Police will have extra patrols in neighborhoods this weekend in response to the amount of illegal fireworks being set off around the city, the department said in a statement.

The White House wanted to have 10,000 active duty troops on the streets of Washington and other cities earlier this week to quell protesters, but Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Chairman of the Joint of Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley pushed back at the use of any active duty troops,…